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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Thrill
 
  Thrilling as the meteor’s fall through the depths of lonely sky.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Thrilled like the juice of the purple vine.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Thrilled like the string of a lyre.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Thrilled as was Rome when Cæsar returned laden with the spoils of conquest.
            —Anonymous		  4
Thrills in leafy tremblement,
Like a heart that after climbing
Beateth quickly though content.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  5
  Thrill like his lyre-strings.
            —Lord Byron		  6
  Thrilled like a revelation.
            —Joseph Conrad		  7
  Thrilled in ecstasy, like an Oriental saint.
            —Alphonse Daudet		  8
        Her timbers thrilled as nerves,
When through them passed the spirit of that shock.
            —Sir Francis H. Doyle		  9
Thrilling her as with fire of rage divine
And battling energy.
            —George Eliot		  10
  Thrill in your veins like shouts of victory.
            —George Eliot		  11
  Thrill like the nightingale’s song.
            —Edward Octavus Flagg		  12
  Thrills … like a thing of song and gladness.
            —Sir William Schwenk Gilbert		  13
  Thrill with sound like a harp.
            —Kenneth Grahame		  14
  Thrilled like witch-notes.
            —Arthur Henry Hallam		  15
  Thrill like some fanciful land of romance.
            —Bret Harte		  16
                Thrills
As if the Enchanted Castle at the heart
Of the wood’s dark wonderment
Swung wide his valves, and filled the dim sea-banks
With exquisite visitants.
            —William Ernest Henley		  17
  Thrill like a battle shout.
            —Mary E. Hewitt		  18
                Memories thrill,
Like a breath from the wood, like a breeze from the hill.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  19
A leap and a thrill like the flash of a weaver’s shuttle,
Swift and sudden and sure.
            —Richard Hovey		  20
  Thrilling like the trump of battle.
            —Walter Malone		  21
                Thrill,
Like sounds upon the wind-harp’s chords when all the winds are still.
            —George D. Prentice		  22
  My heart like a touched harp-string thrilled.
            —Alexander Smith		  23
  Thrill as a theatre thronged at appeal of an actor’s appalled agitation.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  24
    Thrilled as by the clangorous call
Of storm’s blown trumpets from the core of night.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  25
                Thrill,
Like the whole world’s heart, with warm new life and gladdening flame.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  26
  Thrilled … like Memnon waking from his marble dream.
            —Sarah H. Whitman		  27
 
 
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